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Nicholas Potter
Water and Conflict Economics, Spatial and Bayesian Statistics
Education
Washington State University
Ph.D. in Economics
Washington
2020 (expected)
- Dissertation: Essays in Water Economics
- Committe: Michael Brady (Chair), Jonathan Yoder, Joseph Cook
University of Massachusetts – Amherst
M.S. in Applied Mathematics
Massachusetts
2005
Hampshire College
B.A. in Economics
Massachusetts
2002
Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
Technology for Trade (USDA Grant #), Conservation Program Participation (USDA-NIFA), Center for Sustatining Agriculture and Natural Resources
Washington State University
2016-present
Research Associate
Measure 2 Manage
Washington State University
2012-2015
Research Assistant
Moving to Opportunity
National Bureau of Economic Research
2011-2012
Business Development Volunteer
United States Peace Corps
Guinea and Niger
2008-2011
Research Scientist
Bureau of Business and Economic Research
University of New Mexico
2006-2008
Selected Publications and Conference Papers
Using Climate Analogues to Obtain a Causal Estimate of the Impact of Climate on Agricultural Productivity
Annual Meeting of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
Washington, D.C.
2018
Potter, Nicholas, Michael Brady, and Kirti Rajagopalan
Selected Software
rnassqs: Access the USDA-NASS Quick Stats API
CRAN: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rnassqs.
N/A
2019
Potter, Nicholas
vcovConley: Conley spatially adjusted variances
Github: https://github.com/potterzot/vcovConley
N/A
2019
Potter, Nicholas
get_doi.py: Use a DOI to create a bibtex reference
Github: https://github.com/potterzot/get_doi
N/A
2019
Potter, Nicholas
ghgvcr: Greenhouse Gas Value Calculator for R
Github: https://github.com/ebimodeling/ghgvcR
N/A
2018
Schauer, Chris, Krista Anderson-Teixeira, David LeBauer, and Nicholas A Potter
Selected Workshops and Talks
On the Frontier of Water Rights: Beneficial Use and Relinquishment in the Wild West and Now
Annual Meeting of the Universities Council on Water Resources
Snowbird, Utah
June 2019
Git and R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis
Software Carpentry Workshop
Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME
April 2019
A bayesian model of crop choice using STAN
R Working Group
Washington State University
November 2018
Climate Impacts on Agricultural Productivity in the Fruitful Rim
9th Annual Northwest Climate Conference
Boise, Idaho
November 2018
Working with Data using dplyr and tidyr
Data Carpentry Workshop
Washington State University
October 2018
Can crop switching mitigate the effect of climate on agricultural productivity in the fruitful rim?
School of Economic Sciences Seminar
Washington State University
October 2018
Hierarchical regression modeling with STAN
R Working Group
Washington State University
February 2018
Causal bayesian estimates of minimum wage impacts
R Working Group
Washington University
March 2017
A matching approach to estimating the impact of climate on agricultural productivity
R Working Group
Washington State University
November 2017